Man who died on Monsey street was holistic therapist

Jon Bredal of Oregon was a holistic therapist and had work in Ramapo

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A man found dead outside a Monsey restaurant Wednesday night was identifed as Jon Bredal, a holistic therapist from Oregon. He is believed to have died of natural causes.(Photo: James O'Rourke/The Journal News)Buy Photo

MONSEY – A 69-year-old holistic therapist from Oregon died of an unknown medical condition after getting off a bus from Brooklyn outside a Monsey restaurant Wednesday night, police said.

Jon Bredal apparently had work treating children in in Rockland when he got off the Monsey Trails bus on Route 59 near the old drive-in movie theater and Kosher Castle restaurant, Detective Sgt. John Lynch said.

"He had gotten off the bus and was walking when he had a catastrophic medical condition," Lynch said Thursday. Bredal had walked about 100 feet when he collapsed.

The Rockland Medical Examiner's Office will conduct an autopsy and investigation into Bredal's death.

Bredal lived in Wolf Creek, Ore., where the Portland police notified his family of his death, Lynch said.

According to his biography on the Internet, Bredal was a holistic therapist involved with child development. He grew up in North Dakota.

His body was found about 10:30 p.m. outside the front parking lot of Kosher Castle at 43 Route 59, police said. The Medical Examiner's Office took the body at about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday.

As rain fell heavy overhead, the man's body was draped in a yellow tarp. The area around him had been taped off as several small groups of people sought shelter beneath the eatery's canopy.

The find marked the second time this week that Rockland police have investigated the discovery of a body. On Saturday, a 52-year-old Pearl River man was found slumped over the wheel of his car in the parking lot of a Blauvelt shopping center. Orangetown police later said the man, Peter Filatov, died of natural causes.